Power management for audience measurement meters

摘要

Power management methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for audience measurement meters are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include obtaining presentation device state data representing an activation state of a media presentation device that is to present received media and is monitored by an audience measurement meter, the presentation device state data including time information. Such disclosed example methods also include determining whether to fault audience measurement data reported by the audience measurement meter based on the presentation device state data and power outage information determined from the audience measurement data.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by executing an instruction with a processor, presentation device state data representing an activation state history of a media presentation device, the presentation device state data including time information; obtaining, by executing an instruction with the processor, audience measurement data reported by an audience measurement meter monitoring presentation of media by the media presentation device; and in response to the audience measurement data indicating the audience measurement meter experienced an outage, determining, by executing an instruction with the processor, whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted based on a comparison of the activation state history of the media presentation device and outage information for the audience measurement meter determined from the audience measurement data.